Ashu, ---------------- Don't just follow their discussions. Contribute your thoughts and ideas too. Disagree with them with reasons. Add to what they say. Take risks with ideas. Doesn't matter whether you have brilliant things to contribute or just-being-formed ideas. I don?t see anything wrong in just following discussions rather it's an indicator that the one is interested on the issue. Contributing or not is another issue?. consider he/she having limited knowledge, information or resources. No hard and fast rule that one should have an opinion on each and every issue that one is following. Just because one only follows let's not disregard the possibility that he\she is learning. ----------- Share! Do. Have. In other threads. ----------- Don't worry about detractors who may slam you with their lies, lie and lies. With nothing to fear, and looking staright into their eyes, simply drive them to the point of sheer exhaustion with nothing but the verifiable truth. No worries. -------------- And so, give a damn; be passionate about this kind of discussions. Understand the kind of passion and patience one needs to follow a discussion like this. It's because sajhaites give a damn that they visit it again and again and expend time on reading, following, contributing to discussion like this. If not they won't even bother reading anybodys posting let alone follow. ---------------- It won't really harm your life or your career! No it will not. ---------------- It may even make the life real life all the juicier and more meaningful. Will it? I don't know. Has it yours? ---------------- After all, on a larger note, what good is one's higher education, if one always sits on the fence, snickers at others, criticises others and spends a lifetime watching others having a dose of fun with an interplay of thoughts and opinions? Come out of the notion that who sits on the fence always snickers at others. Consider the possibility of them in fact following discussions for a purpose and learning about issues they were not appropriately informed, which might in turn help them contribute in future discussions. Diverse as sajha visitors are they may/may not follow discussions with the intention of snickering at "those having a dose of fun with an interplay of thoughts and ideas" or they may have their dose of fun in other threads. Or they may simply enjoy reading the discussion without having to add their perspective. Criticism? part of the whole package I think. -------------- I think this this forum allows us to give shape to our TENTATIVE ideas and thoughts, and have them subjected to public scrutiny. That's great. I agree with here ^. Therefore, even the observation on identities, discussion patterns and its course and expressions about them are also under public scrutiny?. if wrongly judged observers are out there to put facts straight. Blank